Hey I’m in Japan!! I know it’s kind of a dick move, but I’m not really sure where to start. This last week has been so incredibly busy, I’ve hardly had time to take a piss. Right now I’m in Makuhari New City in the Chiba prefecture outside of Tokyo. It’s about a half-hour train ride outside of downtown. It’s weird, because Makurhari is a Toyko suburb, but there are still like 1.5M people and skyscrapers everywhere and all that. It’s nuts. So far, I think the most memorable occasion has been taking the train into Ginza and hitting up an Okonomiyaki restaurant with everyone in the IES group. I think the thing I like most about Tokyo so far is that you can be in a place like Ginza, going into places like Louis Vuitton
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